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From yesterday, March 22, until mid-May 2018, an exhibition entitled „The Holocaust in Galicia“ in the Memorial Site of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe in Krzyżowa/Kreisau will be on display. It is a part of the international project „Action of the Reconciliation Mark“ from Germany, the Drohobych-Borysław Organization and descendants from Israel and the Bente Kahan Foundation from Wrocław, which was presented to the public for the first time in May 2015 in the White Stork Synagogue. The opening of the exhibition coincided with the beginning of the Seminar of East and West European Memorials, which was attended by historians and collaborators of memorial sites, museums, human rights organizations or people involved in history witness projects.
The exhibition consists of 29 Polish-English rollups with moving content, illustrated with many authentic, archival photographs. It presents the Holocaust in the Borysław-Drohobych Oil Belt. It describes the fate of Jewish families living there, focusing on the history of the family of Józef Lipman (a living witness of history). It also reminds people: Germans, Poles and Ukrainians, who risked their lives and the lives of their families by saving Jews – the heroes honored as Righteous Among the Nations.

An article by Christel Wollmann-Fiedler about Boryslaw and Drohobycz in the Israel Nachrichten

In the spring of 2016, the exhibition „A History of Life and Death. The Holocaust in the Galician Oil Belt“ was shown in Tel Aviv. The occasion was the annual meeting of DBO, the Society of Survivors and their descendants from Drohobycz, Boryslaw and environment. The German journalist Christel Wollmann-Fiedler visited this exhibition at the University of Tel Aviv and wrote this sensitive and informative article.

Blick ins Publikum der Vernissage – View of the public at the vernissage

The German-English exhibition on the Holocaust in Galicia, initiated and co-developed by ASF activists at Jewish cemeteries in Wroclaw and Czernowitz, was opened on October 1st at the Sara Nussbaum Centre for Jewish Life in Kassel. The exhibition will remain open until 20.12.2017.
In cooperation with DBO from Israel and FBK from Poland, the exhibition was published in several languages (German, Polish, Ukrainian, Hebrew – always together with English) and has been shown fifteen times so far: in Poland (5), Ukraine (3), Israel (2) and Germany (5).
Thanks to Elena Padva, director of the Sara Nussbaum Centre in Kassel, an impressive opening of the exhibition on the Holocaust in the Galician oil belt, with 70 or more interested visitors, was achieved. This centre for Jewish life, which has only been active for two years now, has become a significant enrichment of cultural and social life in Kassel, with a rich network from the city to the VHS, the Jewish community, memorials and museums, associations and many more. There is also a worthwhile exhibition on the subject of „contingent refugees“.
Thanks for the photos of the vernissage to Viktor Zvarun

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while viewing the frescoes on Grimm’s fairy tales by Bruno Schulz. Yad Vashem Art Museum, 3 March 2009

What does this photo have to do with the exhibition? You can find out this in the exhibition and at the vernissage!
Was hat dieses Foto mit der Ausstellung zu tun? Das können sie in der Ausstellung und bei der Vernissage erfahren!

A memorial plaque to Eberhard and Donata Helmrich was unveiled in Drohobycz, June 22nd. It reminds this couple which is honored as „Righteous among the Nations“ because they saved many Jews during the Holocaust.
The mayor of Drohobycz, Taras Kuchma, the chairman of the Jewish community, Jozef Karpin, Varda Ghivoly from the „Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Vicinity Organization“ from Israel and Georg Goosmann for ASF spoke at the memorial service. Georg Goosmann also presented the greeting address of Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen, daughter of the Helmrichs:
„…I wish I could be with you today in Drohobycz, but unfortunately it is not possible.
I thank all of you, who are gathering in front of the house, where my father lived during the dark years of the war. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am not able to really express my gratitude, and what it means to me, that my beloved father and mother are not forgotten.That men and women from an other generation are here to commemorate him.
May people who walk by, now and then look at the „Erinnerungstafel“ and wonder, what this man has done for others…“